the russian president tells me the western backed rebels in syria basically guantanamo bay detainees are running amok. coming up. as a frantic series of meetings between leaders having another go at solving the financial crisis some experts believe. and in the us barack obama's democrats nominated him for reelection but without telling americans why some of the president's promises of change have not been kept.

from the heart of moscow with me rule re sushi welcome to the program lot of me says the u.s. and its allies need to wake up and realize that they are backing al-qaeda linked to extremists in syria and the president spoke exclusively to my colleague during his first t.v. interview since returning to the kremlin since flown out to the country's far east where nations making up half of the world's economy a gathering for a summit. bushel is in flood of all stocked with more. their child with brainstorming ideas to fight so global financial slowdown preparation here is in full swing up police are everywhere ensuring security it's an important meeting for world leaders really the head of the international monetary fund is here as well a pick seen as a counterbalance really to the economic power of the g eight apec states that make

up over half the world's economy and talks that have become a pick free trade zone which would be bigger than the e.u. president putin is already here before arriving he gave the first interview since his inauguration spoke to all see discussed really a spectrum of world problems today the syrian crisis was obviously talked about as always straight to the point he was rather skeptical about the syrian rebels even comparing them to guantanamo detainees yet the west is giving the rebels money supporting them despite widespread accusations of atrocities on the ground france even said they will recognize an opposition government so everyone supporting them in the west but russia's president pointed out rebels all the very religious extremists the west is struggling against today someone to use militants from al qaida or some other organizations with equally radical views to accomplish their goals in syria this policy is dangerous and very shortsighted in that case one should. all of its inmates and bring them to syria to do the fighting that could

have practically the same kind of people what we should bear in mind is that one day these people would get back at their former captors and on the other hand these same people should bear in mind that they will eventually end up in a new prison very much like the one of the cuban shore puts it always straight to his presidential elections in the u.s. there's also touched on saying whoever gets in he will try to work with even mitt romney who notoriously calls russia enemy number one but the president added he can only work with the american leads to the extent that the u.s. side wants to also spoke about america in afghanistan about the u.s. rushing into war there and now of course looking for a way to get out so. the mess this created this part of decade long campaign taliban attacks are escalating we have afghan soldiers trained by nato now attacking the very same nato troops and you also took aim at the missile defense shield being planned in europe we talk about the missile defense system our american partners keep telling us this is not directed against you but what happens

if mr romney and believes us to be america's number one which is elected as president of the united states in that case the missile defense system will definitely be directed against russia as it is technologically configured exactly for this purpose and you also have to think about his strategic character not for a year or even a decade and the chances that a man with romney's views could come to power quite so what are we supposed to do to ensure our security coralie of burning diplomatic issue really recently granted asylum but he still stuck in the ecuador embassy in london being blocked from getting out by bridge to authorities who even threatened to storm the embassy in violation of international law president putin that was the case is politically motivated and britain is once again guilty of double standards but if we are constantly lectured about how independent britain's judiciary is it makes its own decisions and no one can influence it but what about julian assange they ruled him

to be extradited what is that if it's not a self evident example of a double standard that would make a definitive statement but as far as i know ecuador has requested guarantees from the swedish government sweden wouldn't hand the soldier over to the united states through no guarantees of being forthcoming at the very least this suggests that we are looking at a politically motivated trial present and really warning there are dangers of escalating there sanch case then going out of the framework of international law we could not talk to him about pussy riot is that six and trial has dominated world headlines i staged a punk prayer in the main rushed. because phaedra got two years in jail for hooliganism ofa motivated by religious hatred they've also staged political from occasions reversal scandalous performances elsewhere mr putin told us he doesn't approve of their actions but won't get involved in the case in any way and i've always felt the punishment should be proportionate to the offense first in case

you've never heard of it a couple of years ago one of the band's members put up three effigies in one of moscow's big supermarkets with a sign saying that jews gays and migrant workers should be driven out of moscow just normally i think you're thora he should have looked into their activities back then but after that they staged an orgy in a public place then they are loaded video that was on the internet then they turned up at your locker of a cathedral here in moscow causing unholy mayhem and then went to another cathedral and caused mayhem there too i will not comment on whether the verdict is well grounded in the sentence proportionate to the offense these girls must have lawyers who defend their interests in court they have the right to file an appeal and demand a new hearing and it's up to them it is just a legal issue whether putin staying out of the percy right case there if you missed the full interview it is available on t.v. dot com spoke about the serious parts of his trip on his way to vladivostok though

it was also part of a first to save an endangered species of crane by disguising himself as one the crane was raised in captivity and they don't know how to migrate south so environmentalist's eros as you're all devised an imitation crane to show them the way has led to the spectacle of a person putting on a special costume and flying a motorized microlight to show the birds their way to asia. now regarding that exclusive party interview with the russian president vladimir putin you can watch it in full in about twenty two and a half minutes time now regarding the asia pacific form and of light of all stock it's on got a lot though it's rather late evening there now but the summit is already providing its first financial agreement. natasha is across the latest news business. absolutely will bring you the details of the biggest deals from the apec summit in russia the city of light in a start including in the energy sector ross now signing a deal with the u.s. oil majors exxon mobil as well as in the automotive sector japan's

a mosque that agreed to assemble cars with russia's sole workers all of that and more in about fifteen. now the heads of the e.u.'s five leading economies are on a merry go round of meetings for the latest efforts to ease the union's troubled financial future french president francois hollande is talking with the british prime minister david cameron just two days after a meeting with italian prime minister mario monti a month to use meeting with the european commission president jose manuel barroso in in rome and the german chancellor angela merkel is in madrid for a summit with the spanish leader matter you're not a whole so a lot more talking your head there is still a little sign of a solution coming out of it right now let's get some more details on this now and speak to financial adviser and wealth manager marco pierre will be joining us live

here on r.t. good to see you today thanks for coming on obvious certainly would seem that a lot of the e.u. leaders are having meetings all around the same time some would call that a bit suspicious any coincidences that you think. oh they've been having meetings for years but they continue to refuse to to actually deal with the fundamental problems which is the imbalances within europe far too much debt slowing economic growth and these these issues are not being on the table either you have a full fiscal integration you need to split up. either of those are still not on the table but we continue to see we continue see these calls for more bailouts well billions of euros him bear and why do you think the situation in europe appears to just be in a perpetual state of getting progressively worse. because they refuse to deal with the issues it's it's very simple you are full for fiscal integration which means

that the germans have to sign for everybody else's debts and you get your. shared liability for the debts and further fiscally tribulation or you have a split of the euro. there's no two ways about it in the meantime what you can do is keep printing money which is what everybody is hoping for mr druggy to keep printing it to actually help the situation until the politics can catch up but the politics has been lacking and they've had lots and lots of meetings but we're still no closer to a full solution for the eurozone lots and lots of meetings more champagne and caviar lots of jabbering and nothing being accomplished now even the dutch prime minister stressing stressing recently that no more rescue packages should be handed over to greece how do you see the situation in greece developing for ages now as

always i can remember people are saying you've got to have greece drop out of the eurozone. like. a long time ago that greece should have been allowed. to leave the euro. they would have gone through the behavior thick process of doing that and coming got coming at the other side we have the troika reporting i believe in in october regarding greece and it's uncertain whether they will be able to. to to meet their obligations for the next tranche of rescue and it's going to be very difficult for the greek government to impose a five to two years of austerity already very high unemployment in greece. eighteen picture for five years. and to impose father lost it's he may spark further social unrest as you may be aware here at r.t.

we are running an exclusive interview we did with the russian president vladimir putin if i were going to run the whole interview in approximately twenty minutes time from now but i jury in his interview he made a mention that for the health of russia certain aspects of the eurozone need to stay healthy for example putin saying that we need germany france and the u.k. to still hate to stay healthy for the benefit of russia how does that all intertwine how do you put that together in georgia comparison. together the. one. if you like it keys he globalization in the fortunes of all of russia very highly correlated with the fortunes of the biggest economies in europe which are farms germany and the u.k. and it's fundamental that those countries do well economically over the next few years to keep everybody else going as well but that isn't the case at the moment

much of a slowing economic growth across europe we wage inflation. is negative which means people's wages and not keeping up with inflation. you have an aging population we have large government debts and large deficits which are very difficult to get under control when you have a rapidly slowing economy in some of these countries like spain and greece you're talking about a quarter of the population more or less with unemployment being a quarter of the working population and youth unemployment fifty percent in spain in greece the situation is is deteriorating there is no real final plan to sort it out there's no final plan to sort all out but the regional leaders will continue to have their champagne lunches and try if they do try it all to get it all back on track marketing financial advisor wealth manager live from london

many thanks for coming on r.t. today. well i despite not being in the trouble that eurozone britain is feeling the pain of a double dip recession nonetheless with the economy shrinking nearly one in seven shops in the u.k. stood very kind of the end of june and now that number could be set to grow artie's laura smith reports only known. then. a nation of shopkeepers and dave me is family are some of the proudest with three generations in the flooring trade this shop has been here for seventeen years but recessions hit the business hard and dave's had to fire more than half his staff really line a one off. i think you know anyone with addiction would not want to put someone to work. boy. but everyone would have gone. to dave and his staff are victims of persons dreaded double dip

recession which means the economy's been shrinking for three consecutive quarters but the second time in four years for ordinary people that means there's less work available and more employment and if you're running a business you'll be selling less and won't be seeing any growth in sales or income there are home grown reasons for recession but a lot of the trouble comes from the beleaguered euro zone and for these market traders in camden a place that usually popular with european tourists it's a double blow spain very very boy even saturday sunday it looks like we're. spinning less less cost of us most like fifty percent less than previous years this is now the longest double dip recession since world war two but stephen davis of the institute of economic affairs says things haven't been this bad since the

eighteen seventies and that was a prolonged period of very very low growth rates profound economic stagnation in places like britain and france sparked off by something very similar to what we have. all time in property and railroad stocks produces. the rise of. quite a lot of intense competition divisions. and restocked come down to eight hundred ninety dave knows about social unrest his shops in croydon where some of the worst rioting happened last august during the trouble he camped out among the culprits in his barricaded shop to protect his livelihood. people. who simply. recently because they're frustrated because actually are working a lot harder for the sign money that. and as

we all know things of increase in prices then. plus you know tax and everything so you know if it wasn't for the support of ours i think we'd be in a lot of trouble dave believes this is the new normal a stagnant economy where only the most scrupulous survive and even they make just enough money to scrape by and economists don't deny that the recovery will be long and arduous stating we could be in for a lost decade or even two nor a smith r.t. . and r.t. is coming to life in the heart of moscow were still to come in just a few minutes here fight for the right police fired tear gas and shotguns at program form demonstrators in bahrain protesting against jail sentences given to leading opposition activists. now barack obama's democrats formally nominated him for reelection in november during the second day of the party's national

convention in north carolina president bill clinton took center stage to praise obama and hit back at republican claims that he has the worst economic record of any president in modern history although the democrats are failing to explain why some of his promises were never fulfilled this report out of water is moving up. in two thousand and eight for october my turned us politics into something of a pop culture phenomenon we may be one of those defining moments. a moment when our nation is at war our economy is in turmoil the democratic presidential candidate accepted his party's nomination value to rebuild america's moral standing and break from the policies of his predecessor the failure to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in washington and the failed policies of george w. bush four years after change occupied the white house america is still at war

twenty three million citizens are unemployed and most of the national security policies cemented by george w. bush continue unabated or have been expanding the code of fixation of what we're illicit abuses under bush imprisonment without trial spying without warrants we've now replaced imprisonment and torture largely with assassination which is actually not a moral improvement under obama's leadership guantanamo bay remains open the patriot act has been renewed warrantless wiretapping extended but cia black sites have closed targeted killings have been justified drone strikes publicly acknowledged military commissions codified however enhanced interrogation like waterboarding has been banned critics say obama has not only double down on bush's policies he's also raise the stakes signing the national defense authorization act made him the first us president to assert the right to assassinate anyone anywhere without any legal

sanction if there is a war cries out there we can the war crimes iraq. tops the list this made many of those who voted for him hoping for change left disillusioned in fact what they appear to have voted for was more of the same obama's ratings are now the lowest of any incumbent president since the one nine hundred eighty s. the two major parties are very this are very much the same on all the important issues when it comes to spending more money than we have. engaging in foreign conflicts that we can't afford the cost of america's overseas military campaigns have contributed to a u.s. national debt that topped sixteen trillion dollars this week while obama's america is running on empty critics say wall street continues to play largely by the same rules that led to the global financial crisis there hasn't been regulation of the banks in a sufficient way and that the main crisis affecting the united states which is to

say the financial clutch on the global economy and the corporate stranglehold on the political system hasn't changed at all because president obama comes from a coalition that led to that in the first place since obama has stepped into the white house america has seen an unprecedented rise in grassroots movements like the tea party and occupy wall street they'll both very different one thing uniting them is the claim that the people of america are being ignored by their own government the two major us political parties have historically gone to great lengths and have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to highlight their differences yet following obama's first term in office the biggest change may be that more voters are likely to see a democrat and a republican as two sides of the same coin merino port ny r.t. new york. don't forget to work at our website r.t. dot com to work at more and all the stories we're covering here's

a quick look at what else we've got lined up you there right now after the suffragist victory speech shooting in canada it's quebec look at what the separation of the french speaking region could mean for the entire nation. but too much a survey by intel reveals the most annoying habits of social network users you can go online to find out what you do that annoys your friends the most. police in bahrain of clashed with protesters venting their anger at jail sentences given to prominent opposition figures security forces used tear gas and shotguns to disperse crowds seriously wounding at least one of the demonstrators on tuesday the country's civilian court upheld the sentences of thirteen leading activists found guilty of allegedly plotting to overthrow the government protesters want an end to discrimination by sunni rulers and more democracy at the movement started early last year police crackdowns claimed around eighty lives thousands of others were

injured and dozens of arrested asia times correspondent pepe escobar says gulf monarchies convince the un that if he's with us that iran is actually the culprit behind the protests. the protests in bahrain which are absolutely legitimate it's the keys of a shiite majority seventy percent of the country protesting because they are treated as second or third rate as this in their own country by a sunni dynasty which is very close to the house of saud in saudi arabia and the problem is the house of saud the g.c.c. countries the monarchies in the persian gulf they manage to convince the u.s. and the west that this is a plot snatched by iran to destabilize the persian gulf which is school. there is a tradition of protesting during. that goes on for decades in fact workers protest

they are shiite but they're also sunni is involved and the fact that this is a two tier society if you are a foreign businessman and if you are aligned with the first you live a very good life sunni's of course if you are shiites and you have to try to live the bahraini dream let's put it this way for get it most avenues are close to you and if you want more human rights and to be treated. normally it's absolutely possible cause from the beginning the saudis especially the core don't know off the air these either the bahraini they sold to washington the idea that this was an iranian plot in war ever happens in bahrain is always view by the saudis and by washington as a minor disturbance and of course the u.s. does not want to compromise its position as being the aircraft. go r.d. an angel of the persian gulf. part of the business we go there good to see you

today how are you today. i know you're keeping rather busy at the moment although is nearly midnight over of light of all stock of course the apec summit goes on and it's been quite a fruitful day absolutely a number of deals were signed but of course we'll focus on some of the main ones including the energy sector draws daft and a u.s. oil major acts of mobile have announced their plans to jointly develop the shelf in russia they plan to start exploration drilling on the block in morrissey's and twenty fourteen which is ahead of schedule companies also agreed to create joint ventures and to pass laws nafta some shares and three of exxon projects in the united states and canada and the fans mas that has launched a joint production with russia's car assembler solar's the full scale production at the flight of a stock plant will start next month with the output expected to reach seventy. thousand cars a year the partners are investing about three hundred fifty million dollars into

the joint project and of course we'll bring you old the latest from the apec forum as soon as we get the news but for now let's check out the markets and we'll start with what's going on here in russia and as you can see the markets here are demonstrating pretty have to gains this hour almost a percent for the mind sex and want to have percent for the r.t.s. bouncing back from wednesday's losses on the corporate side net profit of russia's biggest the company gazprom fell twenty three percent in the first quarter of the year the news doesn't prevent gas from shares though from gaining three quarters of a percent this hour on the currency market the ruble is mixed to the currency basket as you can see the euro is stronger to the dollar as investors develop a bit of an appetite for risk ahead of the european central banks have mr druggies speech later in the day he's expected to outline his bond buying plan he announced last month european markets are higher the sour and you're seeing the figures are

right there the banking stocks and resource companies are leading the gains france unemployment rate rose to its highest level in about thirteen years in the second quarter but so far it's failing to phase european investors and there are some bad news coming from the euro zone this thursday the export oriented economy over finland dropped more than one percent in the second quarter that's because of weakening demand for the country's products from other eurozone members finland's economy is expected to shrink again in the third quarter and mcdonald's has decided to go vegetarian it will open up perf you know meat restaurants in india's religious spots next year the food chain has been on nearly to get decades of. trying to open up the restaurant. for nearly two decades in the country where about eighty percent of the population are hindu and hinduism

of course considers cows a secret animals we'll bring you all the details later this hour for now that's all we have time for and you can find a lot more stories on our site keep that in mind are slash business to thank you very much we'll see you next hour all right or to just a moment when i see we've got the headlines and then it's going to be our exclusive all to the interview with the russian president vladimir putin. to.

download the official application to self choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from atsushi t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch ati any time. in his first t.v. interview since his inauguration. you might just as well i'm not one tonne of all of its inmates and bring them to syria to do the fighting they're practically the same calling to people bloody near putin speaks exclusively to r.t. .